Welcome to Education Week!

1. Stop Waking to Aching: Herbal Remedies for Rejuvenating Your Joints Welcome to Education Week! Laurence Smith, MSW, CNHC Regional Manager, Traditional Naturopath Boise, ID November 15-22

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4. Stop Waking to Aching: Presented by: Laurence Smith, MSW, CNHC, NSP Regional Manger, Traditional Naturopath Herbal remedies for rejuvenating your joints

5. Laurence Smith • From Boise, ID • Found NSP after suffering two heart attacks • Dedicated his life to natural health education • Has been studying natural health for over 20 years • He is certified herbalist and speaks nationally for NSP • Please welcome…

6. Soft Tissue Arthritis • Bursitis, • Fibromyalgia; • Fibromyositis; • Fibrositis; • Rheumatism • Soft Tissue Arthritis by Anthony di Fabio and Paul Jaconello, M.D.

7. “Most of the problems we tend to call arthritis don’t involve the joints and really aren’t even diseases. . . . • There are a lot of names for these conditions — but they all have one thing in common – PAIN.

8. Paul Davidson, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of California Medical Center, described disorders that affect tendons, joint capsules, ligaments, fascias, bursas, cartilages and muscles as “soft-tissue rheumatism,” and distinguished these conditions from “arthritis” which affects hard tissues.

9. Dysregulation Spectrum Syndrome (DSS) • Fibromyalgla (FMS) • Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) • Multiple chemical sensitivities • Migraines and other headaches • Myofascial pain syndrome • Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) • Restless leg syndrome • Temporo-mandibular Joint (TMJ) • Muhammad Yunus, M.D., of the University of Illinois College of Medicine

10. What do all these conditions have in common?

11. Common Symptoms are: • Fatigue, inflammation of muscle tissues • muscle weakness • pain, local tenderness, and stiffness of joints, muscles, joint capsules and adjacent structures • limitation of motion at joints • joint swelling and redness along with a host of other symptoms

12. Holistic Approach • From a natural holistic approach, finding an exact name or names for a particular person's cluster of symptoms is relatively unimportant. • What is important is identifying the underlying causes of a person's health issues and dealing with that.

13. Causes • Medical science has not determined an exact cause of many of these conditions . • These disorders typically overlap, suggesting they have common root causes. • Many different names have been given to the exact same set of symptoms.

14. Causes • Since fibromyalgia and many other conditions are essentially unheard of in third world and developing countries, we can reasonably suspect that they probably have their roots in our modern diet and lifestyle.

15. Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is the most common of these conditions—so let’s take a closer look at it.

16. Fibromyalgia • Fibromyalgia is now the most common disorder seen by rheumatologists after Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis. • Nearly 25% of patients seen at rheumatology clinics are actually suffering from Fibromyalgia. • Professor Bruce Rothschild of Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine

17. Fibromyalgia • Estimates are that there are between 3 and 6 million people suffering with fibromyalgia, although some figures in the U.S. are as high as 12-15 million.

18. Fibromyalgia Mainly people are between the ages of 26 and 35 and the vast majority are women (86%). Dr. Don Goldenberg, Chief of Rheumatology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital

19. The average person with Fibromyalgia has gone 10 years before being correctly diagnosed, seen 12 doctors, tried 15-18 medications, and were put through unnecessary operations for symptoms related to Fibromyalgia.

20. Many are disabled and unable to work, and 35% have had members of their families diagnosed with Fibroymyalgia.

21. Fibromyalgia Syndrome or FMS Fibromyalgia is a syndrome: A cluster of symptoms that typically come together that may seem unrelated.

22. Typical FMS Client • The typical FMS patient looks healthy; no one can imagine that they are ill and in a great deal of pain. • As a result, FMS sufferers often receive little empathy from family, friends, or even health care practitioners.

23. Confusion • FMS is often confused with, or can be concurrent with, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and rheumatoid arthritis, as they all share similar symptoms.

24. FMS Is Not A Wastebasket Diagnosis • Many have been told that FMS is a diagnosis of exclusion and that it falls into the wastebasket category of ill-defined conditions.

25. FMS Is Not A Wastebasket Diagnosis Many are diagnosed after a battery of blood tests, x-rays and spinal taps. And when the tests came back negative, the doctor might have also sent them to a psychiatrist for further evaluation-just so that you could prove to the doctor that your problems weren't “all in your head.”

26. Root Causes • Based on the experience of herbalists and others working with FMS, two of it’s root causes are most likely: • excessive stress • nutritional deficiencies

27. FACTOR #1STRESS

28. Chronic Stress (Adrenal Exhaustion) • FMS is most common in hardworking perfectionists. K.P. Khalsa, RH(AHG), has noted that FMS sufferers are usually high achieving women that are burning the candle at both ends and in the middle, too. From this point of view, FMS can be considered a "health collapse" related to chronic stress. Sunshine Sharing Vol. 19, No. 8

29. Triggering Event • In my experience, I have been surprised how many people, when asked, can give me the triggering event that “sent them over the edge”. • I have found many to be caregivers that don’t take very good care of themselves.

30. FMS Symptoms FMS Symptoms FMS Symptoms • All people with FMS have three major problems: • 1. Pain • 2. Fatigue • 3. Sleep problems • as well as: • All people with FMS have three major problems: • 1. Pain • 2. Fatigue • 3. Sleep problems • as well as:

31. Additional Symptoms • Tender muscles and joints • Anxiety • Irritable Bowel Syndrome • Headaches • Mental Confusion • Other symptoms

32. Pain • Most people feel the pain of fibromyalgia as aching, stiffness and tenderness around joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments.

33. Pain Pain may appear in one or more locations at the same time and also in many different parts of your body.

34. The pain is located within the muscles themselves, as well as at the points where ligaments attach muscles to bones. For reasons that are still unknown, if you have fibromyalgia, you will feel extreme tenderness over many of these locations. • These sites of tenderness are called tender points or trigger points

35. Pain A diagnosis of fibromyalgia is determined when at least 11 trigger points are tender when touched.

36. FACTOR #2NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

37. Diet A whole foods diet is best. Consider the “Eat Right for Your Type” blood type diet. A lot of inflammation is caused by food allergies or intolerances.

38. Get Your System to Work Right Do you Digest? Food Enzymes or Proactazyme Assimilate? Bifidophilus Flora Force or Probiotic Eleven And Eliminate? LBS II, Cascara Sagrada, or Gentle Move

39. While you get your system working--FEED IT

40. Nutritional Deficiencies Stress depletes nutrients. Start with the CORE NUTRIENTS 1. Super Supplemental 2. Super Omega-3 or Krill Oil 3. Super Antioxidants or Thai-Go 4. Ionic Minerals or Chinese Mineral Chi 5. Balanced B Complex or Nutri-Calm

41. Theory “Synthesis of proteins, fats and carbohydrates necessary for cellular integrity, normal activity and functions is dependent on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) availability, which supplies the energy for their synthesis and actions.” Drs. Guy E. Abraham, M.D. and Jorge D. Flechas, M.D.

42. Synthesis in this ATP energy cycle requires the presence of oxygen, magnesium, malic acid, inorganic phosphate and other substances.

43. When these are present in optimum concentration, the integrity of the mitochondrial membrane wherein lies the ATP power unit and the capacity of the enzymatic system becomes enhanced.

44. Protocols for FMS include supplementation with both malic acid and magnesium, based on supporting evidence from various studies. According to one study in the Journal of Nutritional Medicine, 15 patients with FMS (aged 32-60), receiving daily doses of malic acid and magnesium, experienced a notable reduction in pain within the first 48 hours. During an 8-week period, overall muscle tenderness and pain decreased 67%. From HART by Herb Allure

45. Supplements that can Help One of the best supplement programs could start with: FIBRALGIA (4-8 daily) FLAX SEED OIL (2-10 daily) or Super Omega-3 5-HTPPower (6 caps daily)

46. Fibralgia Fibralgia provides malic acid and magnesium. Both ingredients have been shown to benefit individuals suffering from fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).

47. Fibralgia As a natural alternative to prescription anti-inflammatories, Fibralgia offers those with FMS a drug-free option for achieving better health.

48. 5-HTP 5-HTP Power can help improve one's emotional outlook, quality of sleep, and weight-loss success, as well as help relieve symptoms of PMS and fibromyalgia. HART from Herb Allure

49. 5-HTP Power Plus, only NSP's 5-HTP Power offers the extra support of vitamin B6, zinc, and the adaptogenic herbs Siberian ginseng, ashwaganda, and suma. HART from Herb Allure

50. Serotonin Deficiency Serotonin deficiency has been linked to numerous medical and psychiatric problems such as anxiety, depression (including seasonal affective disorder or SAD), eating disorders, migraine headaches, PMS, violent behavior and aggression, and sleep disorders.